![]() Harper Lee, Author of To Kill a Mockingbird "A real novel and a good one. Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her!" ![]() Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure. "Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. And as the past unfolds, the present-for Evelyn and for us-will never be quite the same again. The tale she tells is also of two women-of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth-who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. ![]() Folksy and fresh, endearing and enduring, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe tells the tale of two women and the cafe they ran in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering barbecue, coffee, love, laughter-and an occasional murder.īook Synopsis Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s of gray-headed Mrs. About the Book A new edition of the bestseller that became a national touchstone and a beloved movie. ![]()
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